Re: [RFC 0/6] perf tools: Add perf_evlist errno

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 05:19:18PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2013 12:45:04 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > hi,
> > Andi reported wrong error message for :S modifier
> > on kernel without event ID ioctl support.
> >
> > The reason was that the ioctl failed, but the error was
> > printed like the mmap would:
> >
> >     $ perf.old record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
> >     failed to mmap with 25 (Inappropriate ioctl for device)
> >     ls: Terminated
> 
> I see same confusing error message..
> 
> >
> > I experimentally added sort of 'libc errno' interface for
> > perf_evlist to be able to get proper error message, like:
> >
> >     $ perf record -e '{cycles,cache-misses}:S' ls
> >     Cannot read event group on this kernel.
> >     Please consider kernel update (v3.12+).
> >     ls: Terminated
> >
> > I'm not sure about this approach. Maybe it'd be better be more
> > global..? So before throwing this out, sending it as RFC ;-)
> 
> I like it. :)  We still need to improve this user-visible error handling.
> 
> But what you mean by 'more global'?  I think the evlist APIs are pretty
> global alreay.  And we have same error handling in perf_target code too.

aah, missed the target object has that already.. I meant
to keep the same way of error handling globaly

> 
> But I think it'd be better making it thread-safe even though it's not
> needed for now.  The code is growing really fast.. ;-)

ok, will repost 

thanks,
jirka